Comment 4 for bug 1828607

This RFE was discussed during the Neutron drivers meeting. It was approved as a "directional RFE", meaning that it sets a general direction over several cycles that will spawn several smaller efforts. There are three major goals to be achieved:

1) Rid Neutron of the concept of "network nodes"

2) Take advantage of smart NIC offloading for L3 functions

3) Improvement of the rpc channel performance

Next steps are:

1) Ryan Tidwell to spell out its entire vision in the associated spec

2) Based on point 1, make a gap analysis in the reference implementation and OVN and make a plan on how to "meet in the middle"